The use of unaccredited registrars by public hospitals should be phased out because the positions exploit the growing desperation of junior doctors to win places on specialty training programs,

Another year blooms and with it comes a new flowering of GP registrars and freshly minted GPs.

To them, welcome to a great career choice. Not many occupations offer the variety of options, challenges

A major GP registrar training provider has suspended its CEO and called in forensic auditors to examine its dealings with another organisation he runs.

General Practice Training Queensland (GPTQ), a

It has been hard to get to the bottom of why GP registrar leaders walked out of contract negotiations with supervisors last month, effectively killing off the decades-old process for negotiating

Surveys suggest that most GP registrars consider geographical location and then pay as key factors when choosing a practice for training.

But Dr Bruce Willett, the former chair of General Practice

The idea of paying GPs a salary became reality last month with the opening of a corporate clinic in Sydney.

The clinic pools Medicare rebates to pay the three employed GPs a set salary, rather than

Most GP registrars are happy with their education, like their supervisors and appreciate the clinical opportunities they get at work, a Department of Health survey reveals.

But as the government

Moves to cut benzodiazepine prescribing among GP registrars have failed to have an impact, an Australian study shows.

The researchers examined data from 1161 GP registrars from five regional training

The RACGP is apologising to exam candidates after a string of computer failures caused widespread disruption to fellowship exams around the country over the weekend.

Registrar groups say candidates

Researchers say they may be able to predict which GP registrars are most likely to fail fellowship exams before they even start their vocational training.

Medical education expert Dr Rebecca Stewart,